Word: furiouser
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From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...
...Bhardwaj's extraordinary adaptation works because the themes of ambition and contrition, politicking and deception fit seamlessly into modern Indian life. "You can place this story anywhere," Bhardwaj says, "in the army, in a bank, in journalism. It's a vicious, furious, bleak story. It's human." But Bhardwaj chose not a bank or newsroom but the Muslim underworld, and that imbues the film with urban slickness and the knife-edge insecurity of dog-eat-dog violence...
...course of the game; Smith’s goal started Harvard on its way to a 2-1 second period where the six “Men of Harvard” outplayed their New Haven counterparts. And that set the tone for the third period, when Harvard mounted its furious comeback...
Harvard, obviously, did not fold. Instead, the Crimson mounted a furious comeback, sparked by a beautiful individual effort by captain Kenny Smith and spurred on by the play of the Crimson’s ‘big’ guns—Welch, assistant captain Tyler Kolarik, and senior forward Tim Pettit...
McAuliffe led the way with four points, scoring one goal and three assists in Harvard’s furious second period strike...